CINCINNATI, May 23, 1861.<\/p>\n
DEAR UNCLE:\u2013I received yours of the 17th this morning, and am glad to know that your views as to finishing and furnishing the house correspond with our own. If I should not go away during the summer, I will, of course, visit you several times, and we can arrange all these matters. . . .<\/p>\n
I suspect you do not like to commit yourself on my warlike designs. We have often observed, that on some questions, advice is never asked until one’s own purpose is fixed; so that the adviser is throwing away breath. Perhaps you think this is such a case, and perhaps you are right; but if the dispatches of this morning are correct, that the Government already has two hundred and twenty thousand men, and will accept no more, the question is settled.<\/p>\n
It is raining again\u2013disagreeable times for people in camp. I have not seen any Fremonters, but have written to Haynes \u00b9 to come and see me, with any of the men.<\/p>\n
Sincerely,<\/p>\n
R.B. HAYES.<\/p>\n
S. BIRCHARD.<\/p>\n
_______<\/p>\n
\u00b9 W. E. Haynes. Later a colonel. Long a prominent citizen of Fremont. Member of Congress, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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